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Wellington - New Zealand actresses Lucy Lawless and Keisha Castle-Hughes joined other celebrities Saturday in launching a petition urging the government to sign on to a 40 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. They were joined by actor Rh...

The decision to allow a third runway at Heathrow was a mistake, according to one of the government's most senior advisers on the economics of climate change.Lord Stern said if the decision had been properly considered in light of the UK's ­climate targets, he thought it would not have been granted.Speaking at the Guardian Hay festival , Stern said: 'You cannot have a carbon policy which is quite tough and ambitious and then take a decision like that [Heathrow] which could be very important for future emissions, without a much tighter relationship with that policy.'In January, Geoff Hoon, the transport secretary, dismayed environmentalists by announcing the government's decision to allow a third runway at Heathrow, arguing that it would hurt the economy if it was not built. The runway will be built by 2020 and add an estimated 400 flights a day at the west London site, increasing annual passenger numbers through the airport from 66 million to about 82 million.Asked if the government had

The decision to allow a third runway at Heathrow was a mistake, according to one of the government's most senior advisers on the economics of climate change.Lord Stern said if the decision had been properly considered in light of the UK's ­climate targets, he thought it would not have been granted.Speaking at the Guardian Hay festival , Stern said: 'You cannot have a carbon policy which is quite tough and ambitious and then take a decision like that [Heathrow] which could be very important for future emissions, without a much tighter relationship with that policy.'In January, Geoff Hoon, the transport secretary, dismayed environmentalists by announcing the government's decision to allow a third runway at Heathrow, arguing that it would hurt the economy if it was not built. The runway will be built by 2020 and add an estimated 400 flights a day at the west London site, increasing annual passenger numbers through the airport from 66 million to about 82 million.Asked if the government had

REGINA — Thousands of pensioners heeded the call from a Saskatchewan government agency that checked to see if they are alive and appropriately receiving benefits.But 15 people who didn't respond wil...

REGINA — Thousands of pensioners heeded the call from a Saskatchewan government agency that checked to see if they are alive and appropriately receiving benefits.But 15 people who didn't respond wil...

The population of the Tokyo metropolitan area is expected to age more rapidly than the national average, a white paper by the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry said Friday.

WASHINGTON -- Some of the people President Barack Obama is considering for the Supreme Court got significant support from Republicans when they were last before the Senate seeking jobs in the judiciary or executive branches of government.

Anthony Giddens criticises Heathrow and Kingsnorth decisions and calls for 'revolution in attitudes to politics'One of the most important thinkers behind New Labour has attacked the government for failing to convince people that radical action on climate change is needed.Lord Anthony Giddens, the former director of the London School of Economics and a key architect of the New Labour project, said that global warming was such vital issue that a political 'revolution' is needed to get to grips with it.He acknowledged that New Labour had been slow to develop serious climate change policies and he criticised the government's current policies on the expansion of Heathrow airport and new coal-fired power stations.'There's a long way to go really,' he told the Guardian, at the Hay festival in Wales today . 'I think we need a sort of revolution in our attitude to the politics of climate change.''I don't think we are going to get far by the existing strategy which is essentially based on scarin

The administrator of provincial government pensions in Saskatchewan announced Friday that pension payments had been suspended for 15 individuals who did not respond to a "proof of existence" project. ...

Ambitious, legally binding plans 'set an example for the rest of the world to follow', says Jonathan PorrittWales today laid out radical plans to make it one of the most energy- and resource-efficient countries in the world within a generation.The government development plans, which are legally binding, are far in advance of anything planned for England or Scotland and would see it become energy self-sufficient in using renewable electricity within 20 years and reduce waste to zero by 2050.The proposals would make Wales one of only three countries in the world legally bound to develop 'sustainably'.'We intend to reduce by 80-90% our use of carbon-based energy, resulting in a similar reduction in our greenhouse gas generation,' said Jane Davidson, the Welsh environment minister, launching the sustainable development scheme at the Guardian's Hay festival. 'We are committed to making annual 3% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from 2011,' she added.'This is about living within our resourc